American Self-Fashioning in Helen Foster Snow's My China Years.
In My China Years: A Memoir, Helen Foster Snow draws upon her Puritan roots in fashioning an American self that affirms the power of an individual exemplary life, the ability to exercise free will amid struggle, an optimism borne of hope, and a way to represent failure and success. Self-fashioning,...
Main Author: | Constance J. Post |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Bath Spa University
2013-11-01
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Series: | Transnational Literature |
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Online Access: | http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/2328/27130/1/bitstream |
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